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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: bat69 on March 01, 2003, 19:39

Title: Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: bat69 on March 01, 2003, 19:39

Well if you are upgrading and want to improve your system performance, have a look (http://www.hardwarezoom.com/viewreview.jsp?ReviewID=132&PageNo=1&CategoryName=Storage&CategoryID=50&Path=3) at this article. They tested the following drives in 120Gb formats
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
Western Digital 1200JB
Seagate Barracuda ATA V
IBM 180GXP
IBM 120GXP

Thankfully for me .. the one I've just taken delivery of, socored well .. and was recommended due to its 8Mb of cache  8)

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: Marshall 73 on March 01, 2003, 20:45

b******t, there is no point going for what u recommend for one simple reason, it is a was of money, when cheaper is better, you should go for it, but it is rich [removed] like you that have money to put into s**t like that that influence the rest who don't have the money

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Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: bat69 on March 01, 2003, 21:24

Well I'm not rich, far from it. But for what I want, I need a fast PC, with fast HD ... if I was rich I'd be using SCSI which is really fast

Cheaper is only better if you don't need performance, everything has its place. Cheapest is not always best tho. You will note the title of the thread ... its got nothing to do with recommending the "most affordable" or "best value" ... purely fastest ... and I put it here for people's information.



I don't know what you called me, but swearing is not permitted here, sorry :)

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: Marshall 73 on March 15, 2003, 23:05

maybe, but u r recommending hardwear that has no goal, useless,

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: bat69 on March 15, 2003, 23:46

I am NOT recommending anything OK ... all I have done is post information that MAY be relevant to someone.  

A fast hard drive DOES have a goal .. as if your data is being swapped to and from the drive a lot, as in the case of video, music etc, then speed of the drive, transfer rates, access times etc become important.

Few people want to go to SCSI, and speeds are now approaching SCSI standards with IDE anyway

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: Big_Boss on March 17, 2003, 20:54

I dont mean to be rude or anything...

....but i dont like your tone to be honest!  >:(

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: bat69 on March 17, 2003, 21:09

Sorry Big_Boss but I was merely answering the criticism of my posting this information  :-\

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: Big_Boss on March 17, 2003, 21:24

;D ;D ;D

Not your tone .

I meant Marshall73  :D

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: bat69 on March 17, 2003, 21:25

Dohhhh  ::) ::) ::)  fik me  ;)

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: Adept on March 17, 2003, 21:30

::) :doh: :believe: :brain:

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: bat69 on March 17, 2003, 21:36

:brain:   Don't remind me  ;)

Title: Re:Wanting the fastest IDE hard drive?
Post by: bat69 on March 23, 2003, 17:35

Well someone has done it ... they've got two drives and Raided them to make a 320Gb drive  :o and a fast one at that .... Go HERE (http://www.envynews.com/review.php?ID=417) to find out more